Έμμετρα και πεζά

by Dionysios Solomos, Nar8ex Ebooks (Editor)

I emmetres kai pezes sinthesis tou Solomou apoteloun vasiko simio anaphoras yia ton idio kai yia tous ekprosopous tis eptanisiakis Skholis. Prokitai yia aphiyimatika kimena me entono to stikhio tou romantismou kai tou lirismou yia tis emmetres sinthesis, eno ta peza ekphrazoun me entono tropo ite to stikhio tou trayikou (Yinaika tis Zakithos), ite to komiko stikhio (Dialogos).

182 pages, Paperback

Published March 31, 2017

About the author

Dionysios Solomos (Greek: Διονύσιος Σολωμός, 8 April 1798 - 9 February 1857) was a Greek poet from Zakynthos. He is best known for writing the Hymn to Liberty (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν), of which the first two stanzas on music by Nikolaos Mantzaros became the Greek national anthem in 1865.

He was the central figure of the Heptanese School of poetry, and is considered the national poet of Greece - not only because he wrote the national anthem, but also because he contributed to the preservation of earlier poetic tradition and highlighted its usefulness to modern literature. Other notable poems include Τhe Cretan (Ὁ Κρητικός), The Free Besieged (Ἐλεύθεροι Πολιορκημένοι) and others.

A characteristic of his work is that no poem except the Hymn to Liberty was completed, and almost nothing was published during his lifetime.